Meridians

Lu Li sat in the main seat of his hall, seemingly lost in thought. He glanced at the progress bar at the corner of his eye; it was currently at 50%, which seemed quite good, considering it had only taken three years to reach this point.

Lu Li knew that progress was becoming increasingly difficult, because so far, apart from Lu Li and the other five players, no martial artist had the strength to break through the Celestial Realm and advance to the Mythical level.

According to Lu Li's estimate, even if someone actually advances to the Mythical level, the progress bar would only reach a maximum of 90%, which wouldn't even qualify as the lowest level of a high-level martial arts world.

To truly elevate this world to the pinnacle of martial arts, a genuine path must be forged. Just as martial artists can cultivate internal energy through specific training methods, a method must be established that allows martial artists to follow a single path and directly reach the level of legendary martial artists.

However, nowadays, even those who break through to the Celestial Realm rely on their own talents and opportunities, and there is no fixed path to success, let alone the Mythical Realm, which is a distant prospect. As for those shoddy Celestial Realm cultivators who rely on the light orb of intent, they can only be considered quick-made defective products, not even meeting the required standards.

The reason why the progress bar was able to be pushed to 50% was due to two main factors: firstly, the strength of all players had indeed increased significantly; secondly, Lu Li's Spirit Weapon Project forcibly increased the military power of this world; and thirdly, the efforts of other players.

"The pressure isn't enough," Lu Li thought, squinting. The evolution of this world isn't just a matter for Lu Li and a few other players; their combined efforts wouldn't be enough to complete such a massive undertaking.

"It seems there are still one or two people who haven't discovered the secret." Looking at the progress bar, Lu Li thought about some things that had happened over the years. The one who helped the progress bar the most was Lu Li himself. It was he who released the light ball of intent, and it was he who started to promote the spirit weapon plan.

That's why he was able to discover some hidden things: as Lu Li and the others pushed the world forward, this world would also infuse something into you in some mysterious way.

Lu Li was the biggest help in his promotion, which is why he was able to discover something that was blessing him. If he really had to name this thing, then perhaps he could call it: luck.

With the help of this unidentified substance that resembles destiny, Lu Li has been very successful in everything he has done over the years. Whether it is the development and learning of martial arts manuals, his own research and experiments, or even the expansion and growth of the Black Heaven Hall, it all seems to be divinely aided. However, the greatest help has been to the growth of his disciples.

With the help of luck, it should be of great help to the disciples' martial arts competition seven years later. The five children discovered at the beginning are actually no different; they all have the False Protagonist Halo).

To determine a winner, one must consider their own teaching methods, and the other is the extent to which they contribute to the advancement of this world. Therefore, the two tasks in this instance world may seem unrelated, but they are actually closely connected.

For example, when Lu Li uses his Eye of Detection to observe Zhao Yifan, he can see that the False Protagonist Halo has become dim and irrelevant, and it might be removed at any time.

Lu Li even felt that if he was the one who drove the development of this world, then during the martial arts competition, he might just shout "Heaven's will is on my side" and a meteorite would fall from the sky, killing all four of his competitors' disciples.

"It's a pity that Hu Wenxu also discovered this, and perhaps others have as well." Lu Li shook his head. He had launched spiritual weapons, while Ancient Moon Hall had launched elixirs.

By refining medicinal herbs into pills, one can obtain a large amount of life energy simply by consuming them. By circulating the mental techniques, this energy can be quickly converted into internal energy, saving one the hard work of accumulating it over a long period of time.

Another player, who may not have had extensive knowledge of those side professions, carved secret manuals everywhere, left behind various fortuitous encounters, and benefited a large number of martial artists, should also have received some kind of blessing.

Therefore, as things stand, I have the greatest advantage. The other one is Hu Wenxu, who is slightly inferior to me, but not by much. Then there is that guy who leaves secret manuals everywhere. Judging from the situation, it should be Ding Yuan. Only someone who assassinated the palace and obtained most of the martial arts books in the palace could have so many secret manuals and so many timestamps.

"Also, there's the third volume of the Black Heaven Scroll, which is currently stuck. Finding a path, a way, for people to enter the Celestial Martial Path is truly difficult." Lu Li spoke of difficulties, but in reality, he was quite enthusiastic. Planning a path for a world—doesn't that sound intriguing?

The first volume of the Black Heaven Scroll is a common method of cultivating Qi. Anyone can cultivate internal Qi, and like secret martial arts, internal Qi will have attributes. In other words, Lu Li's ordinary Qi cultivation in the Black Heaven Scroll is equivalent to secret martial arts.

In the second volume of Black Heaven, Lu Li further improved upon the secret martial arts concept of using visualization to absorb special substances and form acupoints within the body, constructing a complete set of acupoints and meridians within the body through martial arts.

It is precisely the appearance of meridians that allows those who cultivate the second volume of Black Heaven to release their internal energy through the meridians without relying on their mental state to resonate with heaven and earth, achieving the external release of internal energy that only Celestial Martial Artists can do.

What Lu Li found interesting was that after these acupoints stabilized through the meridians, they gradually became heritable. After discovering this, Lu Li found that the higher the heritability, the more the progress bar increased.

In other words, the more martial artists who cultivate the Lu Li Black Heaven Scroll, the more offspring they will have. After several generations, or even more than ten generations, the people of this world will be born with acupoints.

Back then, when people practiced martial arts, as long as they rebuilt their meridians... no, perhaps meridians could be inherited, but they might be born with closed meridians. As long as they cultivated and opened their meridians, they could become the secret martial artists they are today. And those whose meridians were not closed by birth might become geniuses one in ten thousand.

"Once the meridian and acupoint system stabilizes, creating martial arts and propelling this world towards higher levels of martial arts will be much easier. Unfortunately, we don't have that much time." Lu Li thought with a wicked sense of humor, "Perhaps in future generations, they will develop a new meridian martial arts system, calling the martial arts of our current era 'ancient martial arts.' I wonder if they will marvel at the wisdom of the ancient people, or lament their foolishness because they don't know that meridians are man-made."

"Master, we have obtained the martial arts manual from Bright Moon Tower." At this moment, Zhao Yifan's voice came from outside the main hall.

"Bring it in. I want to see what's so special about this so-called invincible Bright Moon Scroll," Lu Li said with great interest. There was a rumor in Bright Moon Tower that the Bright Moon Scroll, which was a combination of the Clear Breeze Scroll and the White Cloud Scroll Bright Moon Scroll, had once made someone invincible throughout the world.

That's all for today's fourth update. Happy Qixi Festival everyone! I wish all the single readers find their special someone soon, and all the readers in relationships happiness!

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